OBJECTIVE Retrograde urethrography (RUG) is the most common and preferred imaging modality for imaging of the anterior urethral strictures despite its well-known limitations and disadvantages. Sonourethrography (SUG) was introduced in 1988 to overcome the limitations of...

Spontaneous rupture of adrenal pheochromocytoma is rare with few cases reported in literature.1The exact mechanism of pheochromocytoma rupture is unknown, but a high intracapsular pressure caused by rapid growth of tumor or intratumoral hemorrhage may tear the capsule a...

Background : Enzymatic modification of aminoglycosides is the primary mechanism of resistance by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Obejectives : We investigated the occurrence and mechanism of aminoglycosides resistance in P. aeruginosa isolates from hospitals in SouthWest Nigeri...

Aim Oral habits during and beyond preschool age are one of the important etiological factors in developing malocclusion and other ill effects on orofacial structures. The objective of the present study was to know the prevalence of deleterious oral habits among 3- to 5-...

BACKGROUND. Plasmodium vivax is the most widespread human malaria geographically; however, no effective vaccine exists. Red blood cell invasion by the P. vivax merozoite depends on an interaction between the Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines (DARC) and region II of ...

In the present research work, the effect of several process parameters on the machining characteristics of pure titanium (ASTM Grade-I) has been reported. The machining characteristics that are being investigated are tool wear rate and the quality of the machined surfac...

<jats:p><jats:italic>Entamoeba histolytica</jats:italic>infections are endemic in the Indian subcontinent. Five to eight percent of urban population residing under poor sanitary conditions suffers from<jats:italic>Entamoeba</jats:italic>infections. Metronidazole is the ...

Multi-scale ordination (MSO) deals with potential scale dependence in spe- cies assemblages by studying how results from multivariate ordination may be different at different spatial scales. MSO methods were initially based on two-term local covariances between species ...

Background Bioethanol obtained by fermenting cellulosic fraction of biomass holds promise for blending in petroleum. Cellulose hydrolysis yields glucose while hemicellulose hydrolysis predominantly yields xylose. Economic feasibility of bioethanol depends on complete ut...

Noncommutative oscillators are first-quantized through an abelian Drinfel'd twist deformation of a Hopf algebra and its action on a module. Several important and subtle issues making possible the quantization are solved. The spectrum of the single-particle Hamiltonians ...